GCP Delivery Lead (Practice Lead / Principal Architect)

Role Summary

The GCP Delivery Lead is responsible for driving the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role combines deep technical expertise with strong delivery leadership and customer engagement capabilities, working closely with clients, Google teams, and internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Define and own GCP solution architecture and technical strategy for client engagements

• Design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native architectures

• Establish architecture standards, best practices, and reusable frameworks

• Provide governance and oversight across multiple programs

Delivery Leadership

• Ensure successful delivery of cloud transformation and modernization initiatives

• Conduct architecture reviews, risk assessments, and quality assurance

• Guide engineering teams through complex implementations

• Ensure solutions meet performance, security, and scalability standards

Google Partnership & Pre-Sales

• Act as primary technical interface with Google Cloud teams

• Support joint solutioning, co-selling, and client workshops

• Contribute to proposals, solution design, and executive presentations

AI & Data Solutions

• Lead enterprise AI, GenAI, and data platform architecture on GCP

• Drive adoption of Vertex AI, BigQuery , and modern AI/ML platforms

• Advise clients on AI strategy, transformation, and innovation

Practice Development

• Build and mentor high-performing architecture and engineering teams

• Drive certifications, capability building, and hiring initiatives

• Create accelerators, reusable assets, and reference architectures

• Contribute to practice growth and go-to-market strategies

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 12+ years in cloud architecture, software engineering, or consulting

• 5+ years of hands-on GCP architecture and delivery experience

• Proven track record in large-scale cloud transformation programs

• Experience managing multi-client and multi-program delivery

Technical Expertise

Strong experience in:

• GCP services: GKE, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions

• Data & analytics: BigQuery , Dataflow, Dataproc